The Ian Wooldridge Award

The Ian Wooldridge Award is an award annually presented by the Daily Mail to the British sportsman or sportswoman who has best represented the values of "corinthian spirit and a sense of fair play as well as style, courage and originality". First awarded in 2008, the winner is voted on by the readers of the newspaper. The award began and was named in honour of Ian Wooldridge, a sportswriter who worked for the Daily Mail for forty-five years, who had died the previous year. He is still widely regarded as Britain's finest ever sportswriter. The only stipulation the award has is that the sportsman or sportswoman must either still be competing or has retired within the previous five years.